A Great Article by Phyllis Schlafley ----------------------
Editor's comments plus a few debate observations:
Phyllis Schlafley has written an outstanding article that could not be more current! Please take the time to read it. We have chatted with Phyllis at many functions over the past few years. We have always liked her views and admired her political savvy. She has shown with this commentary that she knows better than many of those running for President that she understands the pulse of the current grass roots voter.
I was curious that nobody in the FOX debate brought up the protection afforded most depositors through the FDIC. It is a huge omission to fail to mention this protection that most depositors have for their accounts. Perhaps those who suggested that it would be an individual crisis during bank failures are mentioning it as a scare tactic. It falls right in with the sort of strategy Kasich would use. He was the classic establishment politician when he was wandering around here in Missouri a few years ago. However, judging from the source, it isn't surprising that the those types of candidates would use the creation of false impressions...the others should have called attention to the omission, though.
Another thing that nobody brought up during the tax discussions was the underground economy. Why in do politicians fail to understand that there are no dads visible in these ghetto neighborhoods because as soon as they get a female pregnant so she can collect more and more taxpayer money, they are out the back door engaging in the underground economy where they can keep the taxpayer money coming in! This way they don't pay taxes on all of the illicit activities they engage in! The underground economy is HUGE and totally untaxed.
Huckabee has the best grip on Social Security fairness. He understands and articulates the difference between welfare and those who paid for their Social Security and Medicare benefits. Seems we are stupid about those issues.
What Carson has proposed in abolishing the mortgage deduction is also a policy of government choosing winners and losers...big time. It would amount to a huge tax increase for anyone currently locked into a mortgage! Few have their homes paid off and most have purchased housing by calculating and depending on the deduction being planned into their essential standard of living structure. To take this deduction away would be a killer for new home sales, the re-sale of real estate and be as bad as some of Obama's "agency" policies! Even suggesting such an action would be a huge killer of economic growth, vast destruction of an improved standard of living for most people and a real lack of understanding about basic economics.
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The Establishment Looks for a New Plan B
By: Phyllis Schlafley || October 7, 2015
The Republican Establishment designed the process to deliver the 2016 presidential nomination to a business-friendly moderate who avoids so-called social issues. The consultants who rewrote the party rules after 2012 are now trying to explain to their patrons what went wrong and how to fix it.
Plan A, of course, was to assure the nomination of Jeb Bush, whose views are the perfect reflection of the Republican donor class. But despite many months of campaigning, $114 million of political funds raised through June 30, and two presidential debates watched by a record-setting average of 24 million people, Jeb Bush has dropped to sixth place, registering only 4% in the latest Pew poll...
...The immigration issue, and the way it has grabbed the attention of the grassroots, made it difficult for Jeb Bush to secure the Republican Party nomination in the usual way. Bush will continue to try, of course, and may be able to play insider politics to line up more endorsements and donors with wads of political money.
But the kingmakers always have a Plan B if their first choice stumbles. In 1964, for example, Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton was carefully groomed as a second-choice alternative who could jump in the race after Nelson Rockefeller failed to stop the conservative Barry Goldwater.
Speculation has been in the media that Marco Rubio, Scott Walker, or Chris Christie is the Plan B for the Establishment in case Jeb Bush fails to gain popular support. But Rubio is tied for only fifth in Iowa and fourth in New Hampshire, Christie has failed to gain any real support and Walker has dropped out completely...
...Walker insisted that candidates should have a "positive" message and that only "candidates who can offer a positive conservative alternative to the current frontrunner" should be considered. He stressed that "Ronald Reagan was good for America because he was an optimist," and complained that "the debate taking place in the Republican Party today is not focused on that optimistic view of America."
Contrary to Governor Walker, who may not have realized that the words "positive" and "optimistic" are consultant code for "business as usual," every poll shows that the voters, by a margin of nearly 3 to 1, say the country is on the "wrong track" or headed in the "wrong direction." Those voters don't need more happy-talk; they're looking for a candidate who's willing and able to turn the country around and "make America great again."
When Jeb Bush and some of these other candidates tried criticizing Trump, polls showed that any loss in support for Trump simply went to another outside-the-Establishment candidate, such as Ben Carson or Carly Fiorina. So Plan B is striking out as badly as Plan A did.
Just a quick note here: Fiorino is a Big GOP Establishment Insider: Her failed 2010 bid for Barbara Boxer's Senate seat flushed her out, as no conservative except Sarah Palin endorsed her in the primary: Every other prominent conservative endorsed Chuck DeVore.
The nonagenarian Goldwater/Reagan conservative sounds the alarm of the GOP Establishment's inside game:
It may be that the only alternative left for these Republican would-be kingmakers is the late entry of a new candidate to enter the race. We are already hearing rumblings about resurrecting Mitt Romney...
...The grassroots must be vigilant to anticipate and counter the attempts by Republican insiders to impose an unwanted candidate on the American people. When we fought for and nominated Barry Goldwater in 1964, we did not win the general election that year but we built the conservative movement and laid the foundation to win five out of the next six presidential elections.
When the Establishment is allowed to pick the Republican nominee, a candidate unable to win the support of the all-important middle-class America results. Establishment candidates have been unable to win the popular vote in five out of the last six elections, and that outcome is not something any Republican should want to repeat~
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